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26
Beginning
of the public
ministry
of the Lord
Jesus Christ
30
c. 48
The
crucifixion,
death and
resurrection
of the Lord
Jesus Christ
Apostle Paul
begins his
missionary
journeys
64
90
Emperor Rise of
Nero
Gnosticism
persecutes
and kills
Christians
95
100
Emperor Death of
Domitian Apostle John
persecutes
Christians
Pentecost
Missionary Journeys of Apostle Paul.
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125
Spread of
Gnosticism
155
c. 155
Polycarp,
Spread of
disciple of
Montanism
Apostle John
is burned at
the stake
180
Irenaeus,
disciple of
Polycarp, writes
Against Heresies
216
303 – 305
Spread of
Manicheanism
Emperor Diocletian
persecutes Christians
Irenaeus (c.130 – 202), wrote
“Against Heresies” to expose the
heresy of Gnosticism. Dualism
was one of the main tenets of the
Gnostics. They believe that the
material is evil and the spirit is
good. This led them to believe that
the Lord Jesus Christ could not
have come in real human flesh,
because the flesh is evil. Apostle
John wrote against insipient
Gnosticism in his epistles.
Polycarp (AD 69 – 155)
was burnt at the stake.
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313
Edict of Milan:
Agreement to
end persecution
of Christians
325
381
Council
of Nicaea
condemns
Arianism
First Council of
Constantinople
condemns
Apollinarianism
and Montanism
An artist’s impression of the council of Nicaea.
Heresies that were condemned during this and subsequent councils include:
1. Arianism, which attacked the deity of Christ;
2. Apollinarianism, which attacked the humanity of Christ;
3. Nestorianism which taught that Christ is two separate persons,
one divine and one human;
4. Pelagianism, which denied that original sin has corrupted man’s nature
and that man still has the ability to choose good or evil on his own;
5. Monophysitism, which taught that Christ has only one nature,
either a human or a divine nature; and
6. Eutychianism, which claimed that Christ’s Christ’s human and
divine natures were fused together.
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395 – 430
Augustine,
bishop of Hippo
397
Council of
Carthage
identifies the
Canon of
Scripture
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The Growth of the Church
405
Jerome
completes
translations
of the Bible
into Latin
431
Council of
Ephesus condemns
Nestorianism and
Pelagianism
451
Council of
Chalcedon condemns
Apollinarianism,
Eutychianism,
Nestorianism and
Monophysitism
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553
Second Council
of Constantinople
condemns
Nestorianism
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590
Gregory the Great
becomes the first
Medieval Pope
680 – 692
Eastern and Western
Churches drift apart
787
800
Second council of
Charlemagne
Nicaea condemns the crowned the first
veneration of icons
Holy Roman
emperor in Rome
Gregory the Great (c. 540 – 604)
expanded the power of the Roman
bishop. Prior to this, the bishopric
in Rome, Antioch and Alexandria
shared power. He attributed both
spiritual and temporal authority
to the Bishop in Rome.
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1054
1097 – 1099 1175
Great Schism First Crusade to
the Holy Land
between the
Western and
Eastern Church
Peter Waldo
commissions the
translation of the
Bible into the
vernacular language
1230s
1251
The Papal
Inquisition
Introduction of
the Doctrine of
Transubstantiation
by the Roman
Church
Peter Waldo (c. 1140 – c. 1205)
founder of the Waldensians
(c. 1170), a pre-reformation
group which emphasised the
importance of preaching the
Word of God.
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1309 – 1378 1378 – 1417 1382
The “Babylonian
Captivity”
The Papal Schism
Completion of
John Wycliffe
Wycliffe Bible, a dies of stroke
translation of the
Latin Vulgate
into English
1413
John Wycliffe (c. 1331 – 1384),
also known as the morning star
of the reformation.
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1415
John Huss writes John Huss
De Ecclesia
burnt at
the stake
Papal palace in Avignon, France. For 70
years the pope resided in Avignon due to
the conflict between the Papacy and the
French Crown. This was also known as
the “Babylonian Captivity.”
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The monument in Constance, where
John Huss was executed by being
burnt at the stake.
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1450
1478
The Spanish
Inquisition
Johann Gutenberg
invents the
Printing Press
1492
Savonarola
preaches reform
1516
Erasmus publishes
the Greek New
Testament Text
Girolamo Savonarola (1452 – 1498),
was an Italian pre-reformer.
The Roman Church
excommunicated, tortured and
hanged him. While being hanged,
flames were ignited beneath him
to consume his body.
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The Reformation (AD 1517 – 1648)
1517
Martin Luther
posts his 95 theses
on the door of
the castle-church
in Wittenberg,
Germany
1519 1522
Ulrich
Luther
Zwingli’s translates the
preaching New Testament
sparks
into German
Swiss
reformation
The castle-church door of Wittenberg.
Wittenberg means “White Mountain”.
The name described the mountain
of knowledge, as it was the centre of
learning in the days of Martin Luther.
It was then the best place in Europe to
study Theology, Music and Law.
1526
William Tyndale
completes
translation and
printing of New
Testament from
Greek into English
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The Growth of the Church
The Coverdale
Bible – the first
complete English
Bible, is printed
1536
John Calvin
publishes
Institutes
of the
Christian
Religion
Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
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Ulrich Zwingli (1484 – 1531)
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1541
1553 – 1558
John Knox Mary Tudor
persecutes protestant
leads
reformation Christians in England
in Scotland
John Knox (c.1513 – 1572).
Thomas Randolf, the English
Ambassador then, said that John
Knox “is able in one hour to put more
life in us than five hundred trumpets
continually blasting in our ear.”
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1545 – 1563 1560
Council of Trent
initiates CounterReformation
Beginning of
Puritanism
in England
1611
1618 – 1619 1620
King James Version Dutch Reformed
published
Synod of Dort
convened
1643 – 1652 1648
Pilgrims set The Westminster
Assembly
sail on the
Mayflower
to America
Reformation Monument
in Geneva. Four important
reformers: William Farel,
John Calvin, Theodore
Beza, and John Knox.
Westminster
Confession of
Faith approved
and accepted by
English Parliament
End of the Thirty
Years’ War
between Roman
Catholics and
Protestants
The Westminster Assembly
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1674
Birth of
Isaac Watts
1678
1729
John Bunyan
publishes
Pilgrim’s
Progress
1738
Jonathan
Conversion
Edwards
of John and
preaches in
Charles Wesley
Northampton
1739
1764
1780
The Great
John Newton
Robert Raikes
Awakening in
writes
develops
America led by “Amazing Grace” “Sunday School”
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758),
preached “Sinners in the hands of
an angry God” in 1741.
John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s
Progress has been translated
to more than 200 languages
and was written while
he was in prison. He was
imprisoned for 12 years for
being a non-conformist.
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Isaac Watts
(1674 – 1748),
the father of
English Hymnody.
George Whitefield (1714 – 1770) open air preaching
during the First Great Awakening.
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1790
1793
William Carey
Second Great
Awakening begins sails as missionary
for India
in America
1835
1836
Robert Murray
George Muller
M’Cheyne pastors opens orphanage
a Presbyterian
in England
church in Scotland
1847
1854
William Chalmers Charles H.
Spurgeon preaches
Burns begins
missions work in in England
Shantou, China
William Carey (1761 – 1834),
Father of modern missions.
Charles Spurgeon (1834 – 1892),
the prince of preachers. He warned
against the “down grade” of the
church in his monthly magazine,
“The Sword and the Trowel.”
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Open air preaching
during the Second
Great Awakening.
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1854
Hudson Taylor
begins missions
in China
1873 – 1875 1881
D.L. Moody holds
revival meetings
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Westcott and Hort
publish corrupted
Greek Text
1906
Azusa Street Revival
Publishing of
marks the rise of the
“The Fundamentals”
Charismatic movement
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1924
Auburn Affirmation,
signed by 1274
Presbyterian
ministers in
America, denies the
fundamentals of the
Christian faith
1925
Eric Liddell
serves as
missionary
in China
1929
1930s
John Gresham John Sung revival
Machen founds in South East Asia
Westminster
Theological
Seminary
1937
Carl McIntire
founds Faith
Theological
Seminary and the
Bible Presbyterian
Church in America
1942
Forming of the
National Association
of Evangelicals,
a Neo-Evangelical
organisation
John Sung (1901 – 1944),
Chinese revivalist.
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1948
World Council of
Churches formed
International
Council of Christian
Churches formed
1955
1962
Timothy Tow founds Timothy Tow
Bible-Presbyterian
founds Far
Church in Singapore Eastern Bible
College
1979
1988
1994
Calvary B-P
Dissolution of Ecumenical
Church (Pandan) B-P Synod
“Evangelicals and
is founded
Catholics Together”
document signed
by Evangelicals and
Catholics ministers
in America
Timothy Tow (1920 – 2009),
founder of the B-P movement
in Singapore.
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2003
2008
2011
Lawsuit to Court of
True Life B-P Church
begins worship in RELC evict FEBC Appeal rules
in favour
of FEBC
2014
High Court
outlines Terms
of Scheme for
FEBC’s use
of premises
Far Eastern Bible College Board,
Faculty, Students 2015 with
Beulah House, 10 Gilstead Road
in the background.
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